The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-30
PILGRIMAGE
RELICS OF 1776 ~ AND ABOUT
g. NEW YORK CITY.

+raunces' Tavern and Washingtop's
Various headquarters in Their
Modern Aspect--A Last Look at
Alexander Hamilton's Country Seat
The Block House and Earthworks
in Central Park-The Battle of Long
Island and the Suydam House.
copyrighted 1881
NEW YORK, Oct. 29-King George rubbed
ont some of the marks that the Dutch left
on New York. The revolutionary fathers
rubbed out what they could of the Colonial
marks, and we are doing our best to rub out
all the revolutionary traces left.
Pearl street, opposite Cedar street, New
York, is gloomy and unprepossessing 10.
cality. Dusty warehouses rise on either
side of the narrow thoroughfare and the
elevated trains rattle by overhead 1t was
here that Washington made his headquar-
ters in the early days of the revolution, but
of the house from which the Liberty Boys
escorted him on horseback to listen to the
reading of the Declaration of Independence
on the Commons now the City Hail square,
not trace is left The Washington House,
at the foot Of Broadway, where Gen. Put
nam was quartered before hostilities began,
which Howe and Clinton occupied while
New York was in the hands of the British,
and from which Andre set out on his fatal
West Point mission, has been torn down
within five years to make room for Cyrus
Fields big hui ding. Burns coffee house. a
few doors above the well-known rendezvous
of the Sons of Liberty, where the first non
importation agreement was signed the night
before the execution of the Stamp Act, and
the house in which Arnold lived after the
discovery of his treason, and from whose
garden stretching down to the river it was
proposed TO abduct the traitor and carry
him off to ~ American lines in the Jer-
seys, is goD, sNs> and a high board fence
shuts out the sV> from view The spot on
which stood the Presidential mansion in
Cherry street. where Washington held his
Tuesday levees during the first session of
Congress under the constitution, and where
New York DANES flocked on Friday even
ings to Martha Washington's simple but
severely dignified receptions, is covered by
the bridge approach The Walton House in
Pearl street, built by son-in-law of Gov
De Lancy in the middle Of the seventeenth
century was the palace of the early city
quoted in England as a proof of the mad
extravaganza Of the Colonists. 1t witnessed
the marriage of Citizen Genet, Minister of
end of the eighteenth century declined into
an emigrant boarding house in the nine
tenth century and was finally despite the
protest of the Harpers. pulled down few
years ago. The old Bridewell was demol-
ished fifty years ago and its stones used to
build the Tonbs.
New York is not a city of monuments 1t
has a history more adventurous than that
of any other American town but circum-
stances have not favored the preservation
of its memorials. The fires of 1776 and
1778 swept away many of the relics of the
old regime, while the fire of 1886 carried off
much that was historically interesting as
belonging to the revolutionary epoch. Add
to these causes the practical business spirit
that looks always to the present and the fu-
ture, but never to the past, and the enor-
NOUS real estate rise that has rebuilt the
lower and older parts of the city over and
over again at pretty regular intervals and
the wonder is not at the dearth of historical
buildings but at the number of those yet
standing